From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 5 15:39:20 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA23671 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 5 Jul 1998 15:39:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from kakapo.pinnacle.co.nz (pinsoft.internet.co.nz [202.37.141.181] (may be forged)) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA23631 for ; Sun, 5 Jul 1998 15:38:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jonc@pinnacle.co.nz) Received: from tui.pinnacle.co.nz (tui.pinnacle.co.nz [202.37.163.3]) by kakapo.pinnacle.co.nz (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id KAA27539; Mon, 6 Jul 1998 10:38:44 +1200 (NZST) (envelope-from jonc@pinnacle.co.nz) Date: Mon, 6 Jul 1998 10:38:14 +1200 (NZST) From: Jonathan Chen To: Rick Hamell cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PPP and Win95 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 3 Jul 1998, Rick Hamell wrote: > > Can you ping your FreeBSD box from your Win95 boxes? > > Not at all, they don't see each other at all. The Linux box had > DHCP enabled, do I maybe need that? Right now the two 95 machines don't > even seen each other, which leads me to believe that possibly DHCP needs > to be loaded. I've got TCP/IP loaded on both those. You're correct, your current setup looks like it requires a DHCP server running on the FreeBSD box. However, if all you want is to get your 3 machine network running, how about just assigning the IP addresses to your machines directly? I'd really only consider DHCP for networks with 15-20+ machines.. > > >I made the /windows/hosts file as was suggested in > > > the handbook, and have changed the Windows Networking stuff as suggested, > > > except for one thing. The DNS server asked for and host name should be my > > > ISP, or the FreeBSD box? > > > > Depends. If you've got a DNS running on your FreeBSD box you'd enter > > it that. If not, use your ISP's. > > That maybe part of the problem, I'm not sure if I have DNS running > right. Would that also be the 192.168.1.4 number? If your process list has /usr/sbin/named, you have a DNS running, otherwise you don't. Cheers. -- Jonathan Chen | "Vini, vidi, velcro... | I came, I saw, I stuck around" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message